He found me in blood and tears.I stayed with him through darkness and fire.We loved each other in the moment between innocence and bitter truth.We were the kids easily ignored, who grew into adults we hardly knew.We weren't meant to last forever. And we didn't.He ran away.I tried to move on.Yet I never stopped thinking about the boy who had fought to keep me alive in a world that would have swallowed me whole. He was the past that I buried, but never forgot.Until the day I found him again, years after believing I had lost him forever.And in cold, resentful eyes, I saw the heart of the man who had been everything when I had nothing at all. So I vowed to hold onto the second chance that was stolen from the children we had been.Sometimes fate is ugly. Life can be twisted.And who we are can be ruined by who we once were.For two people who had survived so much, we would have to learn how to hold on before we were forced to let go.

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary and Paranormal romance including The Find You in the Dark and Bad Rep series as well as the upcoming stand alone romance, Reclaiming the Sand, and a dark new adult series for Gallery Books.A. Meredith spent ten years as a counselor for at risk teens and children. First working at a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault program and then later a program for children with severe emotional and mental health issues. Her former clients and their stories continue to influence every aspect of her writing.When not writing (or being tortured with all manner of beauty products at the hand of her very imaginative and extremely girly daughter), she is eating chocolate, watching reality television that could rot your brain and reading a smutty novel or two.A. Meredith is represented by Michelle Johnson with the Inklings Literary Agency.